EN: Good morning everyone! I hope you had a wonderful New Year’s eve and celebrated with friends and family. I spent the evening eating Raclette with the Mister and Henry the cat, until our neighbors started firing off the first fireworks and poor Henry fled under the bed.. because he’s a wimp… poor thing. Today, I’d like to show you my new Chic Cape by Sew Over It, it’s a pattern from their PDF club and I think the ladies from SOI released it in November. Anyway, once I saw it, I downloaded it immediately, sent it to the printers…then I went on vacation…then didn’t feel like sewing anything…then Netflix released Dark…and then it was suddenly Christmas…..

EN: As I didn’t sew anything between November and Christmas (nearly 5 weeks) and was starting to get antsy, I decided to FINALLY SEW UP THE DAMN CAPE!!! Earlier, in November, some Munich sewing bloggers and yours truly visited the Dutch fabric market in Freising. It was raining cats and dogs and it was freezing which led to 1) me having wet feet 2) me being in a foul mood 3) me wearing my gloves for most of the time which then led to 4) me buying a fabulous red wool coating for a coat…only for me to realize, once I was finally back home, that the fabric was much too thin to be turned into a coat… HAD I JUST TAKEN OFF MY GLOVES FOR MORE THAN 5 SECONDS!!!!

EN: Once I stopped being cross with myself, I decided to use said fabric for the cape. The construction of the cape is rather straight forward, the photo instructions walk you through everything with ease. I ironed on this interfacing, which is brilliant because the wool fabric hardly creases at all!!! The lining fabric is also from the same market and is some sort of polyester, I thought about interlining the cape with a fleece blanket, but then decided that if it was too cold to wear the cape, I’d just wear my coat!

EN: One of the most brilliant things about the this cape, is that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SEW BUTTON HOLES!!! Instead the cape is fasted with 3 snaps. I used buttons from my stash….funny story…I had planned to cover large Prym buttons with the same coat fabric and ordered them over Amazon…I had in fact tossed the remaining fabric in the bin of my sewing room, but I figured, once the buttons arrived, I’d just dig the pieces out, since there’s only scraps and thread in said bin…and then I went to visit my Mom in Vienna between Christmas and New Year…once I came home I was horrified to discover, that the Mister had decided to empty the bin (HE HAS NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE!!!)…and the garbage truck drove off with my leftover fabric….THIS CAN ONLY HAPPEN TO ME!!!!!

EN: Anyway, I think the buttons from my stash kind of work with the cape, as well…no? I really love my new cape and have already worn it out in the wild this week. By the way I actually sat down and wrote a review of 2017 in this post, if you are interested in reading it. I’ve got some wild plans for 2018 and I look forward to sharing my future sewing mishaps with you in the new year! Have a great week!